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grantcart

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10. The part that wasn't true was the "Democratic Party is very weak here"
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 03:43 PM
Jul 2017

I live in Tucson and all of the Democrats run unopposed

Here is the local TV results which show 10 Democrats running unopposed and only 4 Republicans in Pima County

http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/category/313285/election-results

Democrats have 4 Congressional Reps versus 5 Republicans

The total vote for Republican Congressional 1.2 million
The total vote for Democratic candidates 1.0, if you add the one district where the opposition was a Green candidate then it would be 1.1 million

In Tucson Mayor/City council all Democratic party members and no Republican opposition, I understand the same is true in Phoenix.

The Democratic Party is not weak in Arizona except in the off year elections when a lot of Democrats stay home.

It is true that Arizona is highly Balkanized which means that those people living in Red areas will see lots of R only races and those in Democratic areas will see lots of D only races.

Arizona is like NC, Virginia, and Florida where the native population is increasingly older and heavily Republican but the new migrants are younger and heavily Democratic. Unless something radically changes then all 4 will eventually become strong Democratic lean states. Texas is also seeing a similar dynamic but at a slower rate.


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